Word: dawns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long hours before dawn successive rumblings and tremors from the unseen mountain heralded increasingly violent showers of red-hot stones. Each volcanic groan made me wish I had never read the "Last Days of Pompet...
...dawn, we discovered our tents in shreds and all the control and window surfaces of our B-29's wrecked, but the chances of dodging the larger chunks of falling lava (the biggest I saw was the size of a small watermelon) appeared good enough, and the natural rain from the clouds which formed under the great tornado of smoke overhead managed to allay the sulfuric fumes...
What Msgr. Sheen is describing is not the dawn of the religious phase of human history, but a retrogression to the era of the persecuting bigot and the inquisitor...
...fire around dawn drove Musicomedy Writers Herbert & Dorothy Fields (Let's Face It, Annie Get Your Gun) out of their 18-room house in Brewster, N.Y. Some $15,000 worth of furnishings went up in flames, but rural firemen managed to save the house: the Fields had a full swimming pool left over from summer...
...Evolution continues in our time, no longer on the physiological or anatomical plane but on the spiritual and moral plane. We are at the dawn of a new phase of evolution and the violent eddies due to this change in the order of things still conceal that fact from . . . the majority.. . . In comparison, the social revolutions we witness . . . will leave no trace in the future...